• optional@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Japan finds solutions, America finds excuses.

    You have enough taxpayers to build 26 lane highways in California, but you’re telling me you don’t have enough money to build a 2 lane HSR?

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      2 days ago

      Sorry, I’m not American. Looking at it from the outside. There are a lot of things America can do better.

      But from a purely math perspective, it’s a good metric to explain why Japan has what it has.

      • snooggums@lemmy.world
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        They have it because they spent more money on rail and less on highways compared to the US. They chose the better infrastructure.